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unable to boot from cd a blinking cursor appears in the top left corner after the line "booting the kernel" config:motherboard intel G965RY,1 gb ram,intel core2duo processor

Asked by rahul

when i boot from the cd,i get 4 options ,i selected the option of start and install.it shows uncompressing linux booting the kernel.
after that a blinking cursor appears at the top left corner and then there is no further progress...please help me out
i'm using XP pro os ,intel G965RY motherboard,intel core2duo processor ,1 GB ram, sata hard disk of 160 GB.

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Alan (mrintegrity) said : 		#1

From a quick search of the internet I have found numerous other people with the same situation as you. What distribution of Ubuntu are you using? (dapper, edgy or feisty). That motherboard is known to have issues with Dapper but will work with feisty and should work with edgy.

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rahul (ral-sharma) said : 		#2

thanks for replying alan...well,i don't know what distribution it is...on the cd cover it is written version 6.06 LTS
after going through similar questions on this site i tried booting using noacpi noapic commands.
what it showed on screen was the following:
[17179569.184000]BIOS BUG,no explicit IRQ entries,using default mptable(tell your h/w vendor)
i'm new to linux.

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Ergosys (ergosys) said : 		#3

6.06 is the "Dapper" Alan was referring to. You need to get a more recent version. The latest is 7.04, although 7.10 is in "beta" (testing) now and is to be released in October.

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Alan (mrintegrity) said : 		#4

Exactly, you need to download the Feisty Fawn version 7.04 which supports your motherboard

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Alan (mrintegrity) said : 		#5

Actually, before you start downloading the latest version you should wait while I take a look atthe problem. it may not be limited to 6.06 after all. I will see if there is a way around this issue and get back to you.

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Best Alan (mrintegrity) said : 		#6

You may need to use this CD

http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso

I was not able to find any information that could clear the issue up properly except for some people saying it is now supported and working but other saying the opposite.

Hope this helps

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rahul (ral-sharma) said : 		#7

Thanks Alan Mc, that solved my question.